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It's been a whirlwind of executive action, with orders coming fast and furious and some already rescinded or blocked by the courts, since President Trump took office just 10 days ago. Like many presidents before him, he is pushing the boundaries of executive authority, testing limits, ignoring precedent and trying to shift the balance of power from the legislative branch to the executive. For more on what the president has done so far and where things might go from here, KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with William Resh, professor of Public Management and Performance at the Price School of Public Policy at USC.

On this week's program, your host, Justin Mog, shares with you a major highlight from the recent annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, held in Anaheim, California from October 27-29, 2024. The keynote speaker on October 28th was Shaun Harper, one of America's most highly respected diversity, equity, and inclusion experts. He is a Provost Professor at the University of Southern California in the Rossier School of Education, Price School of Public Policy, and Marshall School of Business. He is also the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, as well as founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center (https://race.usc.edu/). Dr. Harper has published 12 books and over 100 academic papers. He also writes for the public press, with more than 125 articles published in the Washington Post, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and other newspapers and magazines. The recipient of dozens of top awards in his fields and four honorary degrees, Professor Harper served as the 2020-21 president of the American Educational Research Association and the 2016-17 president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. in 2021, Shaun was inducted into the National Academy of Education. Learn more at https://www.aashe.org/conference/speaker/shaun-harper/ As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

CTL Script/ Top Stories of July 27th               Publish Date: July 27th                    From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Award-Winning Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast    Today is Saturday, July 27th and Happy 49th Birthday to MLB player Alex Rodriguez. ***07.27.24 – BIRTHDAY – ALEX RODRIGUEZ*** I'm Keith Ippolito and here are the stories Cherokee is talking about, presented by Credit Union of Georgia.  Reinhardt's Price School of Education Expands Program Offerings Sequoyah's Tousignaut Headed to KSU Cherokee Sheriff's Office says Fire Truck Hit in Multi-Vehicle Crash   We'll have all this and more coming up on the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast, and if you're looking for Community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!    Commercial: CU of GA STORY 1: Reinhardt's Price School of Education Expands Program Offerings     This fall, Reinhardt University's Price School of Education is launching two new programs: a Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Certification in Pedagogy-Only and a Master's in the Art of Teaching (MAT) Pedagogy degree. The Post-Baccalaureate program is for those with non-education degrees, allowing them to earn a teaching certification online while working. The MAT Pedagogy degree is aimed at certified teachers with unrelated degrees, providing additional credentials and potential salary increases. Both programs are online and address regional and statewide needs for qualified educators. Tami Smith, director of teacher education, highlights the importance of these programs in helping individuals pursue teaching careers and enhance their professional development. STORY 2: Sequoyah's Tousignaut Headed to KSU    Sequoyah basketball star Brendan Tousignaut committed to Kennesaw State on July 22, following in the footsteps of former Etowah guard Chase Clemmons, who joined the Owls last year. Tousignaut, a 6-foot-6 rising senior, averaged 19 points, nine rebounds, and two steals per game, leading Sequoyah to the Class 6-A playoffs and earning a spot on the All-Cherokee County first team. His commitment comes as Kennesaw State's basketball program, which recently made the NCAA Tournament, aims to build on its success. Tousignaut's addition is expected to bolster the Owls' roster as they strive to improve from a recent 15-16 season. STORY 3: Cherokee Sheriff's Office: Fire Truck Hit in Multi-Vehicle Crash On Thursday morning, a Cherokee County fire truck responding to a crash on Interstate 575 in Canton was struck by two cars, resulting in minor injuries to two individuals. The incident occurred around 8:07 a.m., and all northbound lanes were closed for about an hour starting at 8:15 a.m. due to the accident. Rainy weather is suspected to have contributed to the multi-car crash. The Cherokee Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate the incident.   We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info.    Back in a moment  Break: DRAKE STORY 4: Highland Rivers Behavioral Health Partners with Georgia Military College   Highland Rivers Behavioral Health is partnering with Georgia Military College to offer tuition reimbursement for its employees through the GMC Partner's Network. This initiative aims to support employees pursuing degrees related to behavioral health, such as psychology, social work, and business management. The program includes options for in-seat or online courses at GMC's campuses and Global Online Leadership College. Highland Rivers, a major public behavioral health provider in northwest Georgia, hopes this partnership will enhance career advancement and educational opportunities for its over 900 staff members. The Highland Rivers Foundation also offers scholarships to further support employees and individuals in recovery. STORY 5: Circle of Friends Opening Café in Hickory Flat. What We Know   Flourish Café, a new initiative by Circle of Friends, has begun its soft opening in Hickory Flat, with a grand opening scheduled for August 16-17. This is Circle of Friends' second coffee shop designed to employ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The café, located at 2864 E. Cherokee Drive, Suite F near Canton, will offer coffee, treats, and host community events. The grand opening includes a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 16 at 10 a.m. Circle of Friends, a nonprofit established in 2019, also operates a coffee shop at Chattahoochee Technical College's Woodstock campus. Commercial: INGLES 4 STORY 6: Local Attorney Tapped for Cherokee County Juvenile Court Judge Post    Amanda G. Speights has been appointed to serve as a judge for the Juvenile Court of Cherokee County, beginning January 1, 2025. The appointment, made by the Cherokee County Superior Court judges, fills the vacancy left by Judge Jennifer Davis's promotion to Superior Court. Speights, a Cherokee County native and partner at Speights Law, has extensive experience in family and juvenile law, and has served as a defense attorney for the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court. She is also an active community volunteer and board member. Speights, a Kennesaw State University and John Marshall Law School graduate, expressed her dedication to upholding justice and fairness for children and families in her new role. STORY 7: $13M in State Funding Going to Cherokee Transportation Projects    Cherokee County has secured over $13 million in state funding for transportation upgrades, including the Ball Ground Bypass, Highway 140 widening, and improvements to the Cherokee County Regional Airport. This funding is part of a $1.5 billion state investment announced by the Georgia Department of Transportation, funded by surplus approved by Governor Brian Kemp and state lawmakers. 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Former President Donald Trump had his first meeting with a probation officer today, to help the court determine what the sentence should be for his 34 felony convictions. Meanwhile, a spate of new surveys shows a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Trump and President Biden, with some of the polls suggesting those guilty verdicts may be hurting Trump a little bit.  If they are hurting Trump and helping Biden, it's not by much, but in a race as close as this one, even a small movement at the margins could end up making a difference. But how reliable is polling in 2024, and should we be paying much attention to the surveys five months before the presidential election?  For more, KCBS Radio anchors Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising, along with KCBS insider Doug Sover, were joined by political sociologist Mindy Romero, Director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. 

With elections coming up on May 21st, we want to introduce the candidates running for political office to the people of Paulding County and what their platforms are all about.  On this interview, you'll meet Shannon Price who is running for School Board at Large.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why is a simple treatment not reaching children who need it? Neeraj Sood, professor in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, explores this preventable problem. Neeraj is a professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy with joint appointments at the USC Keck School of Medicine and USC […]

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Mindy Romero, the Director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the Price School of Public Policy in USC; and Dean Bonner, an Associate Survey Director and Research Fellow at the PPIC.

If you're a multifamily operator searching for ways to fund your deals, grow your portfolio, and provide more stabilized income to your investors, Mark Purtell and Preston Hartsell join the show to present CTC Capital Management and its real estate fund model.Dive in to learn the value of good communication between operators and fund managers, the advantage of focusing on multifamily deals in today's market situation, and some of the things you must be looking at in a market and deal to be qualified for a fund structure. Key Points & Relevant TopicsCTC's real estate funds, focus markets, and the benefits they offer to deal operators as co-GPWhat is value-add in real estate investing?The importance of evaluating the work ethic of a deal operatorIs it challenging to raise funds for a fund in today's market?Why it's essential to look for the housing affordability and vacancy rateTypes of deals, operators, and asset classes CTC is currently focusing onHelping operators deal with initial issues involved in long-term holdsResources & LinksApartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive InvestorAbout Mark Purtell and Preston HartselllMark Purtell joined CTC in June 2001 as a market making trading assistant and worked on the trading side of CTC until transitioning to Head of Real Estate Acquisitions and Development in 2020. Prior to 2020, he split time between trading and real estate with CTC, helping expand the operator network to increase investment diversification across the United States. Mark is responsible for creating the CTC proprietary real estate underwriting models, monitoring all aspects of portfolio performance, and assisting in quarterly reporting. Since 2002, he has been active in the Chicago market for his own account with a focus on multifamily investments. He received a B.S. in Finance from University of Illinois in 2001 and holds Series 4, 7, 24, and 57 licenses. Preston Hartsell is a recent addition to the CTC Capital Management LLC team working in the Chicago office from Newport Beach, California. Preston was born and raised in Newport Beach where he then went on to earn a Division I baseball scholarship as an outfielder for the University of Southern California. While at USC, he also earned a B.S. in Real Estate Development from the Price School of Public Policy where he graduated from in 2022. Before CTC Capital Management, Preston interned for Essex Property Trust, a multi-family REIT based on the west coast, in their data analytics department where he was tasked with various financial forecasting duties surrounding the pandemic. He most recently worked at Northmarq where he was involved in the underwriting and market analysis for multi-family properties all throughout California. Get in Touch with Mark and PrestonWebsite: https://ctccapitalmanagement.com/ Email: capitalmanagemet@chicagotrading.com Phone: 312-863-8079To Connect With UsPlease visit our website www.bonavestcapital.com and click here to leave a rating and written review!

In San Francisco for the APEC conference, President Biden is going on the offensive against former President Trump, lashing out at him over immigration. Meanwhile, things have gotten ugly in Congress, where former Speaker Kevin McCarthy stands accused of assaulting one of the men who helped take away his gavel. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a deteriorating sense of civility in American life right now, with a Senate hearing almost turning into a brawling fistfight yesterday, a second congressional hearing turning nasty, and anger and confrontation on college campuses over the war between Israel and Hamas. Tensions are running high in a society that seems more polarized than ever. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising and KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with political sociologist Mindy Romero, founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at USC's Price School of Public Policy. She's also the president of the board of California Common Cause.

As you no doubt know by now, former President Trump has been indicted, again, in a criminal case without precedent in U.S. history. He stands accused of attempting to subvert American democracy by conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He faces four counts of conspiracy and obstruction and will be tried in federal court in Washington D.C. The former president has denounced this prosecution as politically motivated and insists he's done nothing wrong and this is just part of the ongoing “witch hunt,” as he likes to call it, against him. But it's the third criminal indictment he's under, with additional prosecutions pending in Florida and New York, and another one likely in Georgia. For more, KCBS Radio's Political Reporter Doug Sovern spoke to Dr. Dora Kingsley Vertenten, a professor at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.

EPISODE 1534: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, the author of THE OVERLOOKED AMERICANS, about the resilience of rural America and it means for the future of the country Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy. She teaches courses in economic development, the arts, and urban policy and urban planning. Her research focuses on the arts and culture, the American consumer economy and the role of cultural capital in geographic and class divides. She is the author of The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City (Princeton University Press 2007); Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) and The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class (Princeton University Press, 2017), which was named one of the best books of the year by The Economist. Her books have been published in multiple languages. Currid-Halkett's work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Salon, the Economist, the New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement, among others. She has contributed to a variety of academic and mainstream publications including the Journal of Economic Geography, Economic Development Quarterly, the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the New York Times, and the Harvard Business Review. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network and Industry Strategy Officers and has been a member of the WEF Global Future Councils. Currid-Halkett is currently working on a book which revisits Tocqueville's Democracy in America to better understand how culture and politics of culture influence the current geographic and class divisions in American society. Her book, The Overlooked Americans: Revisiting Tocqueville and the Cultural Geography of the United States, is forthcoming with Basic Books. Currid-Halkett received her PhD in urban planning from Columbia University. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long before the pandemic, hospitals and their services were under strain. But throughout the state, some hospitals are now at risk of closing for good, which would leave thousands of Californians without basic access to healthcare. In many rural counties, local community hospitals are the only option for both primary care and life-saving emergency services. The abrupt closure of Madera County's only such hospital is the first in what could become a string of hospital closures, requiring remaining facilities to pick up more patients at a time when staff and resources are stretched thin. We'll talk about this vulnerability in California's healthcare system and what is being done to remedy it. Guests: Kristof Stremikis, director of market analysis and insight, California Health Care Foundation Carmela Coyle, President & CEO, California Hospital Association - CHA represents the interests of more than 400 hospitals and health systems in California. Glenn Melnick, health economist, professor and director, Center for Health Financing, Policy and Management, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Luis Abrishamian, attending physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence Torrance

BIOGRAPHYJennifer Gray Thompson is the CEO of After the Fire USA. Jennifer graduated from Dominican University and was an educator before earning a MPA from University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy. Post-graduate school, she worked in local government. After the devastating fires in the North Bay of San Francisco in October 2017, she became Executive Director of Rebuild NorthBay Foundation (RNBF), a nonprofit dedicated to help the region rebuild better, greener, safer, and faster. In 2021, RNBF created After the Fire USA in response to the Era of Megafires, a relatively recent chronic climate-based disaster.As the nation's leading expert in community recovery from wildfire, Jennifer works at the federal level to improve the space of wildfire disasters by collaborating with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to raise awareness, educate policymakers, and empower local communities. Jennifer is committed to equitable and resilient recoveries for every community, and shortening the space between wildfire communities and policy makers. ATF USA provides compassionate, effective, and relevant consulting services to wildfire communities to support locally lead and designed recoveries. ATF USA "Before the Fire" program is the lead agency for nearly $10M in state and federal grants for wildlands fuel mitigation programs. Jennifer Gray Thompson is a nationally recognized SME and has presented at several national conferences, including US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, HAC, Fannie Mae, Brownsfield, Smart Cities, FEMA, and more. She is cofounder of CANVAS, an association of disaster professionals who “listen locally, act regionally, reform nationally.” She also hosts the “How to Disaster” podcast, which highlights innovative leaders in the space of disaster. She serves volunteer boards for La Luz Center, a nonprofit serving primarily Latinos, and First Responders Resiliency, Inc, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating PTSD for First Responders. In 2022, Gray Thompson was named as one of Forbes 50 over 50 IMPACT List. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-gray-thompson-mpa-65305328/Organization WebsiteYouTubeInstagramTwitter

What do Lloyd Dean, Bernard Tyson, and Gene Woods have in common? First, they all share unique talents and abilities delivered for their organizations in innovative ways as top CEOs.My next guest Stonish Pierce also possesses unique skill sets that connect his mission, vision, and values for innovation through patients, physicians, and employees. His primary brand was crafted through key stretch assignments to make critical administrative decisions that get results that matter. The forethought of utilizing resources innovatively by looking at the data to t gain. Non-traditional operational wins are his hallmark. Pierce says to research what is possible. Through Continuous learning paths in reading industry news and non-industry publications. As problems emerge, you want to leverage your network to solve critical business issues. Get your skills up to date in many areas of healthcare delivery and stay on the pulse of the industry.” Stonish has a people-centered approach and collaborative leadership style in improving healthcare delivery. Pierce is a board-certified healthcare executive with diverse clinical and leadership experiences in acute and ambulatory operations from not-for-profit, public, private, government, academic/teaching, and faith-based hospitals to integrated delivery systems and for-profit physical therapy sectors.Before joining Holy Cross Health, Pierce was System Vice President, Specialty Services for Beaumont Health, Michigan's most extensive health system based on inpatient admissions and net patient revenue. During his tenure there, he recruited more than 150 physicians, co-led the transition of the physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) residency to internal oversight, transitioned the employed hospitalist program to a value-based model, facilitated top decile divisional employee engagement and transitioned more than 700 physicians to telehealth amid COVID-19.Regular speaker for ACHE, Becker's Healthcare, HFMA, World Healthcare Congress, and World Research Group. Industry perspectives have been featured by Modern Healthcare, Becker's, ACHE, Creighton University, and the Positivity Academy and heavily invested in professional development, professionally trained with practical experience applying the Malcolm Baldrige criteria, service as a statewide examiner, and leading system-wide category committees for organizational performance excellence. In 2021, I was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the Top 25 Emerging Leaders (formerly Up and Comers) in Healthcare.A three-time recertified Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Pierce is also a recipient of ACHE's regional Early Career Healthcare Executive Award and Distinguished Service Awards. He was also recognized by his alma mater, the University of Southern California (USC), with the Price School's 90 Pioneers of 90 Years Award. Pierce earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and a Master of Health Administration degree with a graduate certificate in management, all from USC.Let us welcome Stonish Pierce to the Follow The Brand Podcast, Where We are Building a 5 STAR Brand That You Can Follow!

Between a 1999 grant program and a 2010 tax credit program, Virginia taxpayers are paying roughly $10 million every year to help attract film and television productions to the state. The Virginia Film Office says the incentives have a 1.85x return on investment. We're joined by Professor Michael Thom of USC's Price School of Public Policy, who disagrees--he says incentive programs are a bad investment for taxpayers and for the state treasury.Learn more at http://linktr.ee/JacklegMediaSponsored by the Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance of Virginia

Not sure how to price outside collaboration & consultations? Then today's Ask Allison episode is just for ya! Sponsored by: TherapyNotes™ To learn about the Abundance Party & to check out our free resources, including weekly worksheets, visit www.abundanceparty.com/free.

Jennifer Gray Thompson is a lifelong resident of Sonoma Valley in Northern California. She attended Santa Rosa Junior College and graduated from Dominican University in 2001 with degrees in English and History. After teaching high school for 10 years, Jennifer went on to earn a master's degree in Public Administration from University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy. Post graduate school, Jennifer worked for the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. She is the CEO of After the Fire, an initiative of 501c3 nonprofit Rebuild NorthBay Foundation (RNBF), which was founded after the devastating fires in the North Bay of San Francisco in October 2017. RNBF is an organization dedicated to helping the region rebuild better, greener, safer, and faster. In summer of 2021, RNBF created After the Fire USA in response to the prevalence of massive megafires in response to climate change and wildland imbalances. Our tagline remains “Recover. Rebuild. Reimagine.” Jennifer is nationally recognized as a leader in the space of wildfire and has presented at several national conferences on the issue by invitation of the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, HAC, Fannie Mae, Brownsfield, Smart Cities, FEMA, and many more. She is cofounder of CANVAS, an association of professional leaders in disaster working together to “listen locally, act regionally, reform nationally.” Jennifer is the creator and host of the How to Disaster podcast, which highlights proven and effective leaders with great ideas in the space of disaster. She is on the board of directors of La Luz Center, a nonprofit serving primarily the Latino community in Sonoma Valley.Jennifer interviewed Amy Simpkins on How to Disaster on Enhancing Equity and Sustainability back in September of 2021.Quotables“Every single community can recover at the same rate as another community if they are offered the right tools and capacity and funding and support.” - Jennifer Gray Thompson“Energy is also an ecosystem.” – Jennifer Gray Thompson"What is good for the ecology is good for the economy." – Jennifer Gray Thompson“The renewal of faith in humanity is really common in disaster places.” – Jennifer Gray Thompson“The American culture is very good in a crisis and is very good at stepping in with heroics in a crisis. But what we're bad at culturally is taking responsibility for our neighbors and our communities prior to the crisis.” – Amy Simpkins“Disaster is a great leveler and a great teacher.” – Jennifer Gray Thompson“There is a way forward and I believe clean energy is at the center of that.” – Jennifer Gray ThompsonIf you enjoyed the conversation, please share the episode with other innovators. Leave us a positive review and subscribe to Power Flow on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And hey, we're new, so you can even apply to be a sponsor or a guest.You can follow Power Flow Podcast on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Tik Tok. Thank you for listening. See you at the whiteboard!

Today our host, Ryan Sanford breaks down one of the trendiest of trendy topics, The Great Resignation. What is it? Does it really present a challenge to the Oil and Gas industry and if so to what degree? What should Energy leaders be doing about it?   Also Ryan shares some of the cool under the radar projects going on at OGGN and how we are supporting REDM The Movement in ending sex trafficking.  See you at OTC! Thank you to our show sponsor the Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma Executive MBA in Energy.  OGGN: www.oggn.com Got feedback for the show? Ryan.Sanford@oggn.com RedM: https://www.joinredm.com/ OTC: https://2021.otcnet.org/  The Great Resignation: NPR:  https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1007914455/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit Axios: https://news.yahoo.com/great-resignation-upwards-40-workers-100240012.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMa-FojtrjwKk39_yjMCq51_MxC2aMldRuT-oO5W5UXyhY2dKbk_HYDddX8l9ydwHRiL8QwXKRfCb6EE1lEC8AZ5pm-uCx96Pn-TkjRqfi3KH9S0eeCIK4O-vrRQY3S1iI13bpbE2d2niWivpuEpVodYnd7WTIVSECzpF12S2gki Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90646274/the-great-resignation-is-here-this-is-how-employers-should-prepare Leave a Review Enjoy listening? Support the show by leaving a review in iTunes. Connect with OGGN Interested in Sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our Producer, Savannah Wilson. Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Ryan Sanford LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network

In this episode our host Ryan Sanford talks with Wharton and Columbia trained executive coach, facilitator and speaker, Nihar Chhaya. Nihar is a Marshall Goldsmith MG 100 coach, who provides Executive Coaching and team facilitation services to Fortune 50 firms in the Energy sector and beyond.  Nihar also contributes thought leadership on business and leadership topics across a number of media platforms including Forbes, Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. He also hosts a Linkedin Live discussion series where he interviews the world's top thinkers. During this episode's discussion, Ryan and Nihar talk about leadership lessons from the pandemic, common de-railers for aspiring C-suite leaders, the importance of peer relationships, building a culture of openness to feedback, and much more. Links: Nihar's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niharchhaya/ Partner Exec: https://partnerexec.com Thank you to our show sponsor the Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma Executive MBA in Energy.  Executive MBA In Energy (EMBA): https://www.ou.edu/price/mba/embainenergy Leave a Review Enjoy listening? Support the show by leaving a review in iTunes. Connect with OGGN Interested in Sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our Producer, Savannah Wilson. Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Ryan Sanford LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network

In this episode our host Ryan Sanford introduces our brand new show, Journey to the Energy C-Suite and previews what's to come. Thank you to our show sponsor the Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma Executive MBA in Energy.  Executive MBA In Energy (EMBA): https://www.ou.edu/price/mba/embainenergy Leave a Review Enjoy listening? Support the show by leaving a review in iTunes. Connect with OGGN Interested in Sponsoring? If you would like to get your company in front of our professional audience, please contact our Producer, Savannah Wilson. Engage with Oil and Gas Global Network LinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN Street Team Facebook Group | LinkedIn Group Events on Deck: Get Modalpoint's Monthly Events Email Get Automatically Notified About Oil & Gas Events Once a Month Connect with Ryan Sanford LinkedIn | Oil and Gas Global Network

As soon as someone mentions housing affordability, and at the Price School that is everyday, I can't help but think of Jimmy McMillan. You might not remember his name, but likely you remember the name of his party: the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. It is. We know that. We know rent is high, in part its wage stagnation, slow development, high cost of living, low renter protections ... Today, we're speaking with folks from the Price Center to discuss a new report on housing affordability in L.A. This isn't just another report on the monetary cost of housing, telling us more of the things we already know. The report covers findings from a door-to-door survey done in 2019 to unearth the realities of families living with rent burden. What do real people have to give up when their rent is 30%, 40%, 50%, or more of their take home pay? Policymakers need to think about the other costs Angelenos are facing "when creating policy responses to protect renters during the COVID-19 pandemic." Too many of our neighbors faced rental precarity before the pandemic. "Researcher and practitioner efforts must address the impending eviction crisis stemming from the pandemic shut-down as well as the more enduring task of tackling long-term rental affordability." Aubrey Hicks speaks with Gary Painter (Social Innovation), Jovanna Rosen, Sean Angst, and Soledad De Gregorio about the impact of rent burden on two neighborhoods in Los Angeles.  

Dana Goldman (Interim Dean, Price School of Public Policy and Director, USC Schaeffer Center) hosts Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) and Thomas Mitchell (Macarthur Fellow and Co-Director, Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, Texas A&M) in a conversation about Mitchell’s work on attempting to rectify the many ways that Black and other disadvantaged American families are deprived of their real estate wealth. Upon the passing of a land-owning family member without a designated will, a great many properties of Black Americans passed property to multiple interest-owning heirs. Often called an “heirs property” or “tenancy in common”, this arrangement makes the estate easy to enter into a forced sale where the property sells for a fraction of its value. Affecting both rural and urban disadvantaged populations, Mitchell’s work has spearheaded both legal and legislative reforms in several states to help alleviate forced sales of a family’s vital source of generational wealth.

Christine Beckman is The Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Public Policy at the Price Center for Social Innovation in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, and the author of Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age. Before joining the Price School in 2018, she was a Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She also taught at UC Irvine. Christine is a widely-known and highly visible scholar in the field of Management and Organization. She is a native Californian and received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. In this episode, Stew and Christine talk about the pluses and minuses of technology for working families, especially during these pandemic times, when so many are working from home for the first time and when parents are attempting to manage remote school work for their children. They discuss the ills and potential benefits of social media and strategies for harnessing technology as a force for good. And they address the ways both social policy and individual initiative can strength the social support, or scaffolding, working families need now more than ever. Here’s an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation. Choose a person in your life who provides support that enables you to be the person you want to be and thank them for what they provide, and let them know how by their helping you they are enabling you to make things better for others. What do you discover? Write to Stew Friedman to let him know, at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu, or connect with him on LinkedIn. While you’re at it, share your thoughts with Stew on this episode and ideas for future shows. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At the center of every clinical trial is a group of patients; each with a medical condition that we seek to understand more about through interacting with those patients directly. Startups like Sanguine Biosciences are part of a clinical services innovation layer, connecting population health, clinical research, and healthcare delivery in new ways using new technologies. On this episode, our guest is Brian Neman, CEO of Sanguine Biosciences, and adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy. We discuss how recent technological advancements enable new way to make clinical research more patient-centric, better efficiency, and—critically in the time of COVID-19, ensure continuity of care and the advancement of medical research. This is the TomorrowScale podcast, hosted by Justin Briggs Sanguine Biosciences: https://sanguinebio.com https://TomorrowScale.com Disclosures: The host and guest have no conflicts to disclose. Mr. Briggs and companies he is affiliated with are not current or previous clients of Sanguine Biosciences. The TomorrowScale Podcast was created to showcase scientists and entrepreneurs who are building science-based businesses, and to hear their stories from the benches and in the trenches of research & development. The views expressed by the host and guests are their own, and the content of this show should not be considered legal, tax, or investing advice. Thanks to our guests for sharing their time and knowledge with us. Thank you for listening. Please science responsibly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tomorrowscale/support

- The 1958 pandemic killed over 100,000 Americans but you've never heard of it and it didn't have political ramifications. What the hell?- Tara Reade breaks her silence in TV interview- Embarrassing political skits for campaigns- Interview with Mindy Romero ( Director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California) about the viability of mail-in voting

In this episode, Mark Keppler is joined by Mindy Romero, the Director of California Civic Engagement Project at the Price School of Public Policy at USC and Sarah Bohn of the Public Policy Institute of California to discuss poverty and the economic situation of Latinos in California.

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE. Eve Picker: Hey, everyone, this is Eve Picker, and if you listen to this podcast series, you're going to learn how to make some change.   Eve Picker: Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Liz Falletta. Liz teaches architectural and urban design at USC's Price School of Public Policy, where she's taught for over 15 years. But that's not all Liz does by a long stretch. Liz is also a small-scale developer, having developed, painfully, one of LA's first small-lot subdivision projects. She sits on LA's Zoning Advisory Committee, which is tasked with critiquing the city's Recode LA Project, a $5 million five-year plan to overhaul the zoning code. Last, but not least, Liz has just published a book, "By-Right, By-Design," where she researched housing solutions. Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Liz on the show notes page for this episode and be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.   Eve Picker: Hi, Liz. Thank you very much for joining me all the way from California. It's earlier for you than me, right?   Liz Falletta: Yes.   Eve Picker: I know you teach architecture and urban design at the University of Southern California's Price School of Public Policy. I think you also have your own development firm, wrote a book, and you were one of the first developers to develop a small-lot subdivision in LA. You're a very busy woman.   Liz Falletta: Yes. I do teach design across disciplines at the Price School at USC. I'm an architect and, for a long time, I taught in our architecture school, but now I'm exclusively in our policy-planning environment. Thinking about design from multiple perspectives is something that I do a lot. I guess it's been a long time now since I did that small-lot subdivision project, and I think I've blocked a lot of it out.   Eve Picker: Well, I wanted to hear a little bit about your development work. What prompted you to test out the small-lot subdivision? It might be worth telling our listeners a little bit about that zoning-code overlay, which I kind of find fascinating.   Liz Falletta: Sure. The small-lot subdivision came out of an effort by the LA Planning Department, in 2004/2005, to really address housing and our mounting housing crisis, which is now even more of a crisis. They actually invited an interdisciplinary group of designers, developers, planners, other stakeholders in housing to brainstorm what are some ideas, from a policy-planning perspective, that could engender housing production.   Liz Falletta: The small-lot, or, aka, zero-lot-line housing was one of hundreds, I think, and was really the one that got pursued. I think the idea was if you were able to scale down homeownership and also allow development outside a condominium model ... Because, really, what the small-lot allows is feasible homeownership on a smaller scale. Contractors and builders don't have to get onerous builders risk insurance like they do when they build condominiums.   Eve Picker: Interesting.   Liz Falletta: Yeah, no, it's ... I think planners really thought that the smaller scale would create for more affordable housing.   Eve Picker: I've seen some of that, and it's not affordable, is it?   Liz Falletta: No, no. That is the thing that struck me the most is that, if you build a small-lot in Venice on the west side, it's going to be $2 million a unit, because it's the west side. Build one in Silver Lake, it'll be a $1.5 million. Smaller-scale solutions, I think, are a good option. I think ultimately, after having done one, and having seen how the small-lot has evolved since I did the one that I worked on, I think it's one tool amongst many [cross talk]   Eve Picker: I think what it does do is it sort of maximizes the use of infrastructure that's already in place. I know that there are cities all over the world kind of densifying areas through zoning so that they can maximize their transit [cross talk] and utility lines. One little house in the middle of a very large lot in a highly desirable neighborhood doesn't really ... It just makes the sprawl go further, right?   Liz Falletta: Exactly. I think one of the things that was actually brilliant about the way the ordinance was written is that it didn't have anything to do with the zone change at all. It had nothing to do with zoning. It just allowed you to use lower-density, multifamily-zoned sites in a different way. They might have been built as apartments or condominiums before, but this allowed ... We have a restricted-density zone, for example, probably 20 dwelling units an acre, density-wise; it allowed those sites to be developed with for-sale housing, which, at the time, was ... The small-lot subdivision came out pre-crash.   Eve Picker: If you were to rewrite that today, what would you change about that small-lot subdivision overlay?   Liz Falletta: That's such a good question. I do think ... Because it's actually not an overlay, but I think using it as an overlay, and being more targeted and specific about where it could be used and how, I think, would be helpful [cross talk]   Eve Picker: So, it's LA-wide. It's just a change for the zoning-   Liz Falletta: It's LA-wide, yeah [cross talk] It's an ordinance that allows you to develop with a different model. It was sort of marketed as small houses on small lots, and it really has turned into giant houses on small lots.   Eve Picker: Yeah.   Liz Falletta: So, I think [cross talk]   Eve Picker: It's an interesting- it's like an interesting lesson in how much you'd have to think about the details of a code like that.   Liz Falletta: Oh, yeah. Also, you have to ... I feel terrible saying this - you have to think about the bad actors.   Eve Picker: Yeah. I think that's right.   Liz Falletta: Who's going to abuse this, and how, and-   Eve Picker: So, this is not a democracy. It's [cross talk]   Liz Falletta: Yeah. How do we head off the bad acting? I think we saw a lot of really bulky design that communities pushed back against. You saw a lot of projects ... There were a lot of single-family homes that were built on multifamily-zoned sites, so you saw a lot of turnover of those kinds of sites, and communities ... You know, communities, in the main, don't really understand zoning.   Eve Picker: Yes, that's right.   Liz Falletta: And were very upset to see houses being demolished to build these giant things. Then a lot of rent-controlled small-scale housing from the '20s, '30s, and '40s has been demolished to build them, also.   Eve Picker: Maybe even just saying that if you have the privilege of adding more units to a lot like that, there's a maximum size to each of them would have kind of stopped that. It's interesting. What other development are you doing?   Liz Falletta: I have done development in the past. I did two or three small-lots, also, that, in the end, didn't get built. Then, the market crash happened, and then I started teaching full-time, and then, I started writing this book, which, it turns out, takes a long time to write a book. So [cross talk]   Eve Picker: Yes. So that's taken over. Okay- [cross talk]   Liz Falletta: -yeah, but I am actually, I should say, looking to do another development. I feel like I learned a lot by doing all the research for the book. I would like to get back into small-scale development in LA.   Eve Picker: What's interesting about small-scale development?   Liz Falletta: Personally, it's just the financial scale [cross talk]   Eve Picker: -in LA, small-scale is still really big, and expensive, right?   Liz Falletta: -yeah, still pretty expensive. But also, I think that's where we can build successful communities. Not that we can't have large-scale communities that are successful, but I think neighborhood change in giant steps is not palatable to communities. I think smaller-scale changes can be really impactful [cross talk]   Eve Picker: Right. It's a way to innovate change slowly and gently, right?   Liz Falletta: Yeah, and in ways that people can embrace and see immediate benefit from, as opposed to this 200-unit housing project that assembled 10 lots, and suddenly, the neighborhood is totally different.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I think that's right. Your work focuses a lot on LA. What conditions have you found that are unique to LA versus just across the country [cross talk] in the research that you've done?   Liz Falletta: One of the reasons why this research was well-suited to LA is we really do have a strong history of design innovation, but also a really interesting history of multifamily housing and different multifamily housing types. They're different types than we see maybe in Chicago or New York. Then we also see these types have persisted. Our city is younger than many on the East Coast, so these types are still extant in a way that maybe they aren't in some other communities. I think, also, LA has the reputation - and it's somewhat true - super pro-growth; really driven by development and developers. There's long been a close association with the city with the development- development as a profession.   Eve Picker: Be sure to go to EvePicker.com and sign up for my free educational newsletter about impact real estate investing. You'll be among the first to hear about new projects you can invest in. That's EvePicker.com. Thanks so much.   Eve Picker: Your book is called "By-Right, By-Design." I'd love to know how you came to that name.   Liz Falletta: So, by-right, as I'm sure you know, just means by-right projects can be built with ministerial approval - approvals where nobody can say ... If you meet all the criteria, and the criteria are laid out, nobody can deny approval for your project. Developers really like by-right projects, or permissionless projects, because they're a lot more certain, and they're less risky, and they usually take less time. Developers would prefer to build by-right if they can. That's become increasingly impossible in Los Angeles. There's been a lot of discussion about by-right housing- elevating the threshold of by-right and actually making more projects able to be built by-right.   Liz Falletta: For my purposes, I needed a second category that was a corollary to by-right, and that's where by-design came from, because the book really looks at a set of six case studies that look at really famous Los Angeles housing precedents by famous architects, aka by-design, with their by-right counterparts. By-design could also mean by-discretion, or by-variance. All of the by-design projects actually required some sort of discretionary approval to be built.   Eve Picker: Interesting. And do you think they're better?   Liz Falletta: Not always, actually.   Eve Picker: That's interesting.   Liz Falletta: No, I was ... Because one of the questions I had when I started out on this is like I wonder if all these projects that are really famous, you know, that I studied in architecture school, I wonder if they broke the rules; if they could only do these innovative things by not following the rules. It was true. They all required variances of different kinds. I don't think being by-design means they're necessarily better, or better designed, or that if they're in the by-right category, they're poorly designed.   Liz Falletta: One of the things that really started this research is some annoyance at the fact that architects always ... A. they always believe that unless it was designed by them, it's not really well-designed, and B. that - I should also say that I'm a licensed architect - but that they really thought more design was always better in every situation, and it's not necessarily true. I was frustrated-   Eve Picker: That's a pretty damning thing for an architect to say.   Liz Falletta: I know. I'm sorry [cross talk] bad. I guess typically what I say is I think design really, really, really matters. It just doesn't matter in the way that many architects think it does.   Eve Picker: How so?   Liz Falletta: I think architects are trained to be innovative all the time, to be focused on image, to be focused on creating things that are new, that are this, that are that. I think that allows them to not see, or to discount other aspects of design that are maybe tried and true, or repetitive, or something that actually really matter to quality of life; because I think the design of housing, for example, really matters, but I think what really matters about it is a lot about density, about spatial organization, about circulation, about how common space and open spaces organize. I should say, also, I think there are a lot of amazing architects doing really great projects who don't maybe share these attitudes, but I think the profession focuses less on these things; doesn't feel like these things are as important.   Eve Picker: Yeah. As you know, I'm also a trained architect, and I went to the dark side, too, and became a developer.   Liz Falletta: Yay!   Eve Picker: Yeah, but, you know, I have a sort of similar frustrations with the architecture profession, which I adore. I think that architects are trained in a unique and priceless way, but I think they are not necessarily ... Especially young architects don't really understand how much they've learned and how they can put that to use in other ways and follow a traditional path in sort of that branded architecture studio that may not always make the world better.   Liz Falletta: Yeah.   Eve Picker: I wish they'd learn a little more about real estate development, as well, because the pragmatic side of architecture is sometimes overlooked, right? I remember having conversations with an architect about the fact that five units would be so much nicer than six. I'm thinking, "Well, five units won't be built and six will be ..." It's that sort of basic thinking, yeah ...   Liz Falletta: Yeah, because that sixth unit is your profit; that's your cash flow [cross talk].   Eve Picker: -or I'll break even. It may not even be profit, you know?   Liz Falletta: Exactly. One of the reasons I wanted to write this book is because I wanted to help architects, and planners, and real estate developers better understand each other's goals and values so that that architect could use his understanding of the profit motive in real estate to get his or her own goals addressed, or met, or something. Because, if architects just sit there and say real estate developers are terrible because they don't understand that the five-unit design is going to be better than the six-unit design, that's completely unhelpful. It's not going to get us anywhere.   Liz Falletta: I think what architects don't understand is they have an interest, a vested interest, in the planning and real estate development strategies of the projects they design, right? A good example from the book is Gregory Ain's Mar Vista Tract, which had a very enlightened developer who had done some development in the '20s, or early 20's; hadn't done anything in the '30s, during the Depression, and really wanted to build a community, which is fantastic. Ain was also very interested in that. They got a lot of pushback from lenders, and they got a lot of pushback from the city planning department, in terms of how it was laid out, and the style the houses; did it have flat roofs or not? Ultimately, they could only build half of the tract, and that half was a financial failure. So, if people wonder why we don't have modernist communities, that is one reason.   Eve Picker: Yeah.   Liz Falletta: They had to sell off the rest of their land. and it got developed in the traditional kind of manner.   Eve Picker: Talking about by-right, I know you're a fan of the recent offering we had on Small Change, Bungalow Gardens, which is in your neck of the woods. It's a little homeless housing project. I believe that's a by-right project [cross talk] and I'm wondering why you like that project.   Liz Falletta: I personally would love to build a bungalow court for myself. My goal - I think a lot of people have this goal - it's going to be hard to do here in Los Angeles. Everybody wants to build a compound, where you can live with your friends and have communal dinners. Actually, also, I should say that the first place I lived when I moved to Los Angeles was a very small bungalow court, and that-   Eve Picker: Oh, cool!   Liz Falletta: It was interesting. I moved out here from D.C. to go to SCI-Arc, actually, for grad school. Finding housing was really interesting, because I had lived in a rowhouse, I think, in D.C., in a basement apartment. I'd never encountered a bungalow court, but I was driving around, and they're just ... Everybody loves them. They are the best places to live.   Eve Picker: That's really sweet.   Liz Falletta: You know your neighbors immediately [cross talk].   Eve Picker: How big are they, typically?   Liz Falletta: Oh, gosh. They can be relatively large. The one I lived in was probably six units, eight units-   Eve Picker: For our listeners, the bungalow court typology, I think, start being built in the '50s, right?   Liz Falletta: Really much earlier than that. Probably the latest ones are in the '30s.   Eve Picker: In the '30s. This little one that Jason and John built - a building, Bungalow Gardens - is the first one in almost 100 years.   Liz Falletta: You can't build them now, mainly because of the parking requirements, but also just underlying density is reflected in land values, so you can't ... Basically, if I wanted to build a bungalow court, I would overpay for land and then under-develop it. Part of what makes the bungalow court work, really, is the scale and the individuality of units.   Liz Falletta: Many of the units actually- these were often built for tourists, because people would come to LA for their health, but would also ... It took a long time to get here, then, so you stayed for months. They had all this built-in furniture and fun things that allowed you to live in the unit, easily, for a few months, as opposed to having to bring all your belongings and actually move here for real.   Liz Falletta: They're very efficient; they're laid out, really, very functional. They've got a lot ... They're high, in terms of individuality, so you have a lot of identity with your unit and your space, but then there's that communal scale. That actual courtyard usually then connects to the block and the street [cross talk]   Eve Picker: It's very nice [cross talk]   Liz Falletta: -if we could all live in bungalow courts, we would [cross talk]   Eve Picker: -maybe the issue is not ... Maybe the issue is not just by-right, and by-design, but also by-cost, because the cost of land clearly drives development, as well, right?   Liz Falletta: You have done your deal when you bought the land, right?   Eve Picker: Yes.   Liz Falletta: If you overpay for land, you're done. You have determined sort of what kind of project you're going to do and whether that project's going to be a success or not.   Eve Picker: How does all of that fit in with affordable housing?   Liz Falletta: One of the other benefits of building small-scale housing and even this- the whole explosion of ADUs is many of those are going to hopefully provide inherently affordable housing, as opposed to subsidized affordable housing. Getting subsidized affordable housing, we just haven't been able to build a huge number of units. There's a lot of competition for those funds. We now have transit-oriented communities. It does incentivize the development of affordable units in mixed-use projects. You get some extra density and some parking reductions, if you're near transit, and they have a pretty liberal definition of transit. I do think that is generating way more affordable units than maybe some of our other mechanisms have in the past [cross talk]   Eve Picker: Interesting. Zoning becomes a serious mechanism for affordable housing. Actually, that brings me to the other thing I'd like to talk to you about. I think you were appointed to LA's Zoning Advisory Committee? The Recode Project-   Liz Falletta: Yeah. Mm-hmm.   Eve Picker: You're one of not many people who are critiquing that and leading a subcommittee on housing, right?   Liz Falletta: Yes. I was just talking about this with my students yesterday and realizing that I needed to check in with people at the City, because we haven't had a meeting in a while. LA's zoning code that we are still using today was officially created in 1946, even though we had a code prior to that. We had residential districts as early as 1908.   Liz Falletta: Our code has been frustrating to use for ... It makes it really difficult for people to do good projects; the kind of projects that the city wants to see. Mixed-use has always been a problem with our code, because it's very single-use oriented, so it's confusing to use. There was also a substantial sort of phantom code, or ghost code that, if you were in the know, you knew [cross talk]   Eve Picker: Oh, really?   Liz Falletta: -you didn't? Yeah, that wasn't very transparent. It meant that certain people got certain favors. The planning department wanted to do several things. One, make the code more user-friendly; I think, two, make it more modular. Basically, it's a form-based light code. It disassociates use and form. The idea is that the modularity will make the code more flexible, but then, also, as people want to do different kinds of projects, the tools are already there, in terms of making a zone combination that will facilitate that kind of project. I think the third thing they wanted to do is elevate by-right processes. So-.   Eve Picker: Interesting.   Liz Falletta: -allow more projects to be built by-right, because virtually no projects are built by-right.   Eve Picker: Yeah, and the entitlement process takes a really long time in LA [cross talk]   Liz Falletta: Oh, yeah. No, the first small-lot project I did was the real education because I was like, "This makes no sense ..."   Eve Picker: How long did it take?   Liz Falletta: Oh, my God. At least two years, yeah. It was like banging your head against a wall.   Eve Picker: Now, I know, with the Bungalow Court listing, I talked to them probably for two years before we listed it. All along the way, there was entitlement, entitlement, entitlement, right up until the end.   Liz Falletta: Yeah. What I learned is that part of that is inherent in development. Every week, something happens that's going to kill your project. It's just how it is, here. I would get upset and there would be crying. Finally, after a few months of this, I was like, "Oh, this is what development is. This is how it works. Okay. I need not get so upset about this, because it'll kill me, A, and B. that's the work site traffic control inspector. Sure, he's going to deny your work site traffic control plan ..." That I even had to have a work site traffic control plan was ridiculous, but-   Eve Picker: How many units are we talking about?   Liz Falletta: Four!   Eve Picker: That's crazy. That's crazy.   Liz Falletta: It's crazy, and they already existed. I was using the ordinance. The ordinance was silent on whether it had to be new construction or if it could be existing construction. Basically, I bought two duplexes on a big lot, and cut the duplexes apart, and cut the big lot into four.   Eve Picker: And it took two years to get it approved.   Liz Falletta: Yeah.   Eve Picker: That's nuts.   Liz Falletta: It was insane. Then they wanted me to build a public sewer.   Eve Picker: Oh ...   Liz Falletta: Yeah! It was ... I think my experience was maybe more extreme than some.   Eve Picker: I had the public sewer experience in Pittsburgh once.   Liz Falletta: Did you?   Eve Picker: Yes. The sewer was out on the main street, and they'd been wanting to move it into the alley for a long time, behind the building. Our building was at least 600 feet from the crossroad. They wanted us to lay an entire line to the [cross talk] So, every other building on the both sides of the alley could feed into it. It was really awful.   Liz Falletta: Yeah. No, they wanted me to build an eight-inch line with a manhole on my property for four one-bedroom/one-bath units.   Eve Picker: Now you're in the middle of the Recode Project. How long has that been going on?   Liz Falletta: You know, it was supposed to be a five-year project, so it's gone on six and maybe seven years, now.   Eve Picker: For a five-year project?   Liz Falletta: Yeah, five years; $5 million dollars. It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.   Eve Picker: Do you think that it's going to be successful? Are there pitfalls that you're seeing already?   Liz Falletta: There are several. There are many pitfalls, I think. One is mixed messaging about the project and what it would do. I think they promoted it differently to different constituencies. That's fine, but they have not been very clear about that. I think, two, they have- this is a critique of urban planning. I think there's a whole sector of urban planning that feels like if they did 800 community outreach meetings, they've done their job, and I don't think that's the measure of whether this is successful or not [cross talk] I kept getting emails; "We've had 800 meetings ..." and I'm like, "Great ..."   Eve Picker: Wow, that's a lot meetings.   Liz Falletta: It was a lot of meetings. It definitely was. Then, thirdly, these zones are basically being applied in a community planning process ... I unfortunately know very little about planning on the other cities or the East Coast but, in California, every city has a general plan, which is sort of the constitution for growth and development; has different elements. One of them is about land use and planning for land use. In the city of LA, we have 35 different community plans that basically apply zoning and apply various planning tools to specific parcels and talk about how neighborhoods are going to grow and change.   Eve Picker: Right.   Liz Falletta: We update ... We don't update those very often. Five or six years ago, we'd updated four or five in the past 20 years. We didn't update them very often. What that meant for the zoning code was that most communities wouldn't see the benefit of this new code for decades. We'd have a dual kind of code system. The mayor, then, vowed to update all the community plans within six years. I don't know the status of that, right now [cross talk]   Eve Picker: It sounds like a monster project.   Liz Falletta: Yeah, no, it's just ... I fear that it was oversold, and people aren't really going to see the benefit of it.   Eve Picker: That's a shame. What do you think is the best possible outcome for this code overhaul for LA?   Liz Falletta: What all of us really focused on was identifying and reducing the barriers, which are legion. But then there was a lot of ... I think there are a lot of people out there ... I'm one of these people who want- I want to do interesting small projects, and I can't, for a variety of reasons. You have to cobble together ... It's so interesting to me that the Bungalow Gardens project really could only exist because it's in a TOC designation, because they don't have to have parking.   Eve Picker: Oh, and probably because the developers are non-profit [cross talk] they spent two years on that project, and I don't know what for-profit developer could do that.   Liz Falletta: Right. No. A for-profit developer would slide right past that project, or at least definitely not do it in the same way-   Eve Picker: Yet they got an award for innovation on that project. So, there's something really broken, right?   Liz Falletta: Yes, that is- that's exactly right. Part of the reason, also, that I wrote the book is I think ... We're having to have a citywide conversation about housing and how to produce it. Our ability to have that conversation is just as broken as all the tools that we use to try to generate housing - affordable housing that costs $500,000 to $700,000 a unit to build. I'm even beginning to think that these sort of silos that we exist in are a problem, when we think about gentrification, also. It stops the conversation. We just don't get anywhere.   Eve Picker: Yeah, I think that's right. It's kind of depressing.   Liz Falletta: Yes. I'm sorry. No, I mean-   Eve Picker: You know, John Perfitt said something, actually, in the podcast I did with him and Jason about the work they do as a nonprofit housing developer that I think was really sad. That was engagement of community is very difficult for them and very expensive, if they're going to ... It's kind of had the reverse impact on involving community because if they're going to spend a long time on a housing project, they simply can't afford to have it shut down by someone at the end of a two-year process. They don't have the money for it. That means that they almost have to avoid some community engagement, which is kind of the reverse that you want, right?   Liz Falletta: I think that's one of the big reasons, also, that you've seen more housing initiatives in California at the state level. People interested in taking local control over housing away, because communities have shut down projects, basically because they're only looking at them from a singular perspective, which is their own. We can't move forward, as a city, with that.   Liz Falletta: For a long time, Christopher Hawthorne, who is now the city designer; I forget exactly what his title is, but he was the architecture critic for the LA Times for a long time. Then, Mayor Garcetti hired him recently. Basically, his analysis of the city really was for a long time we had so much- enough space to be 10 different cities. We could be the industrial engine. We could be the idyllic single-family home and the garden. We could be the diverse multifamily community. But now, we've run out of space, so all of those images and versions of the city are competing with one another and conflicting. We have to have a higher-level conversation. There needs to be a lot better education of the public about housing and how housing works [cross talk]   Eve Picker: -just on a broader level, impact investing ... How do you think it's aligned with real estate and the importance of it in your mind?   Liz Falletta: Well, like I said, I was super-excited to be able to invest in John and Jason's project. I actually have been teaching design to real estate development students for about 15 years, 16 years; increasingly horrifying amount of time. It's interesting, the evolution of the students that I've encountered, because when I first started doing it, none of them thought design was important. None of them wanted to be there. I got ones on my evaluations. Everybody hated me. It was demoralizing and terrible.   Liz Falletta: Now, the students are not only aware of issues of gentrification; really aware of the perception communities have of developers and development; aware of social issues, like homelessness. Also, they're really interested in building communities, and innovative communities. I think the interest in impact investing is going to track that. I think my generation screwed it up or it was part of the problem. I think the students- I think kids in their 20s and 30s are going to really change things.   Eve Picker: They really care about the world, I think, in a way-   Liz Falletta: They do. Climate change ... I think they really understand development as a responsibility, as opposed to a way to make money. Don't get me wrong; they want to make money, totally, but it's interesting; a lot of them have fathers or mothers who are developers, and their parents' development practices really bother them. They're like, "You know, my dad doesn't spend any money on this part; this thing that I think is really important."   Eve Picker: Interesting, yeah-   Liz Falletta: Things are changing.   Eve Picker: I think that's right. I think my parents didn't think that way either. It's a definite shift, which is great.   Liz Falletta: Yeah, and I'm wondering how it happened. I'm not sure I know. I don't know if you have children, because I don't. I just see the students and see how they how they shift and change.   Eve Picker: Yeah. I think climate change is probably- is there, and people are thinking about it at a much earlier age. That surely has to impact the way they think about the world. Then, there's so much access to information easily-   Liz Falletta: That's true.   Eve Picker: -that a generation or two ago, we just didn't have [cross talk] there's more knowledge to-  or more access to knowledge, whether it's fake or not. I mean, you have to sift through it all, but there's just more access. I don't know. I think all of those things together change things.   Liz Falletta: I think, too, their expectations have changed, in terms of how they're going to live. They don't all assume they're going to buy single-family homes; either because that's out of reach or because it's just not something they're going to value-.   Eve Picker: Or because it's illegal in some cities, now.   Liz Falletta: Right, exactly.   Eve Picker: So, I'm going to I'm going to sign off now. We've been talking for a while, but I wanted to ask you three questions that I ask everyone. That is what's the key factor that makes a real estate project impactful to you? What really matters to you?   Liz Falletta: I talk about triple-win projects in the book, and these are projects that perform well from the perspective of design, planning, and development. For me, that's the real hard hallmark of a good quality project. Because the interesting thing to me was the projects that balanced those perspectives from their inception really were the more resilient projects, over time, in terms of being valuable projects from all three perspectives. The Village Green, which is a really famous Garden City garden-apartment projects in LA is a really good example. It was definitely innovative, when it was built, but also very financially successful, when it was built, and really created a community. It's performed well in all those measures, throughout its history.   Eve Picker: That's really interesting. Other than by raising money, do you think that crowdfunding could benefit small-scale or impact real estate developers like you?   Liz Falletta: Yeah, I hadn't really thought about using it as a tool, but I do think, as John and Jason talked about, it is an interesting way to do community outreach and involve neighbors in projects. I think that is pretty brilliant, giving people the opportunity to invest in something next door. I think it's probably also a really great networking tool. I could imagine that, for John and Jason, the people who invested in this project are probably going to invest in other projects [cross talk]   Eve Picker: -we can only hope, right?   Liz Falletta: Yeah, no, I'm up for it-   Eve Picker: We hope that they build more. Then, if there was one thing that you would change to improve real estate development in the United States, what would that be?   Liz Falletta: Oh, gosh, what would that be? That's such a good question. I think it really comes down to bad acting. I think a lot of our policy is retroactive and is responding to bad acting instead of promoting high-quality, community-oriented projects created by people with good intention.   Eve Picker: Oh, yeah.   Liz Falletta: So, I guess that's really about changing the culture of the profession, which I do think is changing. Maybe it could change quicker.   Eve Picker: Well, thank you very much. I really enjoyed talking to you and good luck with everything.   Liz Falletta: Yeah, thank you. You, as well.   Eve Picker: Actually, I have another question for you, Liz, I think I'm going to add in. What's next for you, now you've written the book?   Liz Falletta: Oh, gosh, I have to say that-   Eve Picker: A break?   Liz Falletta: -yes, it is ... I'm doing some book promotion, and I am looking for a real estate project right now, in between teaching, and also sort of ... I've been teaching now for nearly 25 years, and I'm wondering if it might be time for a larger-scale change; maybe doing something more entrepreneurial with real estate.   Eve Picker: Oh, wow.   Liz Falletta: Yeah.   Eve Picker: Keep me posted!   Liz Falletta: I will.   Eve Picker: Okay. Thanks, Liz.   Liz Falletta: Okay, thanks so much. Take care.   Eve Picker: That was Liz Falletta. What an amazing woman. Here are some of the takeaways from what Liz shared with us today. First, through research from her book, "By-Right, By-Design," Liz learned that more design is not always better. She also learned that some of the best housing solutions might not be the most innovative designs. Over the years, her students have evolved from not caring one iota about design to caring very much today, and that bodes well for the future of cities.   Eve Picker: You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access the show notes for today's episode at my website, EvePicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today, and thank you, Liz, for sharing your thoughts with me. We'll talk again soon, but for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

USC Schaeffer Center's Jason Doctor and Keck School of Medicine of USC's Ricky Bluthenthal discuss the epidemiological analysis and related issues that led to the ongoing nationwide opioid epidemic facing the U.S. population today, including possible solutions to defeat the opioid crisis. Jason Doctor is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy. He is also the Director of Health Informatics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. His research program centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Doctor specializes in behavioral economics and the use of choice architecture to affect policy in health and medicine. Ricky N. Bluthenthal is the Associate Dean for Social Justice and a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Institute for Prevention Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His current research includes randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of a single session intervention to reduce injection initiation risk behaviors among established people who inject drugs and an observational epidemiological study to examine if increased cannabis availability results to decreased opioid use among people who inject drugs.

Welcome to the KNX In Depth year-end special podcast—with Mike Simpson, I’m Charles Feldman.  We are looking back on the year that was in local politics for Southern California, and what a year it was when decades-long conventions were turned upside down.  As red Orange County turned blue, Democrats solidified their grip on just about every level of California’s government. The era of Jerry Brown in California, which spanned four decades, came to an end and a young,  ambitious governor will take the helm.  There was an upset of historic proportions in the race for Sheriff of LA County.  And Latino voters in California seemed to finally realize their full power in 2018. Joining us for this special podcast is Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at USC’s Price School of Public Policy; and Rafe Sonenshein is executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How It’s Possible to Talk About and Improve Diversity and Inclusion Diversity and inclusion sound like universally accepted ideas, but when we try to talk about how we fall short of them and how we can improve, they become two of the most controversial political sparks in the fire that rages around our American discourse. Many people believe they can’t speak the truth in their hearts, and so they see no path forward. At the USC Price School, we have been challenging this assumption and lifting up these voices to unfurl a path that had been blocked until only recently. In this episode, LaVonna B. Lewis tells the story of this new effort, known as the Initiative on Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice, and she implores us to follow the Price School’s lead in our everyday lives. Prof. Lewis is a teaching professor in the Sol Price of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, where she currently serves as Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives. You can read more about these initiatives on the “Moving Forward” website at pricediversity.usc.edu. To listen to this episode of Our American Discourse, click the arrow in the player here. Or  download it and subscribe through ApplePodcasts, Soundcloud, Google Play,  Stitcher, or your favorite podcasting app – click the links or search “usc bedrosian.” Follow us on Twitter! @BedrosianCenter, @AnthonyWOrlando  For links and more, check out the showpage.

Our American Discourse is a small piece of a big effort. We’re not the only ones trying to raise the level of public debate in this country. Take a walk through the Price School, and you’ll see room after room of scholars who genuinely care about the public interest. Stop at the Bedrosian Center, and you’ll find the people who have taken it upon themselves to engage directly with the public. That’s where I spend most of my days on campus, and it’s where I want to take you today to meet the leader who makes it all happen…

This week we’re back with part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Lisa Schweitzer of USC’s Price School of Public Policy.  We talk about the idea of jobs housing balance, her blog post on the Smartest Boy Urbanist, her favorite planning books and mentors, and we get a preview of her upcoming book on firearms and cities. 

Cities are the engines of economic growth because they provide opportunities for enhanced productivity. They provide opportunities for productive spatial arrangements, often involving “clustering” and “agglomerating.” But these widely cited descriptors are seldom defined. This research uses business location data for Los Angeles County to test various associated questions. (1) To what extent do technological links explain spatial clustering? (2) How does this vary by industry? (3) Are the smallest firms attracted to the densest areas because they are most dependent on information developed by others? (4) How does this vary by industry? This research investigates these questions at the sub-metropolitan (traffic analysis zone) level. Speakers: Peter Gordon Emeritus Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy John Cho Associate Regional Planner, Southern California Association of Governments Peter Gordon, Ph.D.,is an Emeritus Professor of the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He retired in 2013 after 43 years at USC. He now teaches each summer at Zhejian University in Hangzhou, China. Gordon’s interests are in urban economics and urban transportation economics. He is a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International, a past president of the Western Regional Science Association and received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. John Cho, Ph.D., is Associate Regional Planner at SCAG. His research interests include topics in freight transportation, land use and transportation policy, and regional economics. He received a Ph.D. in industrial and Systems Engineering, and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering specialized in Transportation Engineering from USC, and an M.A. in Economics from Seoul National University.

Peter Gordon, Ph.D., an Emeritus Professor of the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California gives his presentation on “Cities and Economics Growth” to students, faculty, and practitioners. This presentation is a part of the Spring 2016 METRANS Research Seminar program, an ongoing series of presentations designed to share cutting-edge transportation research with interested parties throughout the industry.

Keynote presentation by Saskia Sassen - Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Colombia University as part of the conference: Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. In large cities around the world, the most contested public space is the streets and accompanying sidewalks. As a result of historic migration and immigration to urban centers, the spatial projects vying for this space have multiplied. In particular, the growth of street vending causes us to reconsider some of the fundamental concepts that we have used to understand the city. Vending can be seen as a private taking of public space. It can contribute to civic vitality as well as be an impediment to traffic flow. Vendors are often micro-entrepreneurs who cannot access the private real estate market as spaces for livelihood. The issues about the legitimate use of public space, the right to the city, and local ordinance enforcement/dereliction are often complicated by class conflict as well as the street vendors’ diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and their migrant/immigrant status. As a result, recent street vendors’ challenges and protests have been important catalysts with far-reaching political implications about the future of our urban societies. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners in dynamic dialogue to present empirical cases (both contemporary and historical) and larger global trends. While vending and public space has been the subject of acrimonious debate in many cities between vendors, local government, formal business and property owners, community organizations, pedestrians and alternative mobility groups, it has also been the impetus for some innovative mixed-use and inclusive arrangements for sharing urban space. Since in our largest, densest cities, local governments, urban planners, and citizens will have to find new ways to plan, design, and govern this precious urban public space, this symposium particularly seeks to shed light on possible futures and the key narratives that will need to be re-written. Towards this end, this symposium extends the first Contesting the Street conference that was held at UCLA in 2010, by expanding the geographic focus of the inquiry beyond (while still including) the Americas to gain comparative insights. Main Presentation: Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Colombia University. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. Symposium Organizers: Annette M. Kim, Associate Professor at the Price School of Public Policy and Director of SLAB, Price School of Public Policy, USC Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair of the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair Professor and the Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School of Public Policy, USC.

Keynote presentation by Margaret Crawford - Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley as part of the conference: Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. In large cities around the world, the most contested public space is the streets and accompanying sidewalks. As a result of historic migration and immigration to urban centers, the spatial projects vying for this space have multiplied. In particular, the growth of street vending causes us to reconsider some of the fundamental concepts that we have used to understand the city. Vending can be seen as a private taking of public space. It can contribute to civic vitality as well as be an impediment to traffic flow. Vendors are often micro-entrepreneurs who cannot access the private real estate market as spaces for livelihood. The issues about the legitimate use of public space, the right to the city, and local ordinance enforcement/dereliction are often complicated by class conflict as well as the street vendors’ diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and their migrant/immigrant status. As a result, recent street vendors’ challenges and protests have been important catalysts with far-reaching political implications about the future of our urban societies. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners in dynamic dialogue to present empirical cases (both contemporary and historical) and larger global trends. While vending and public space has been the subject of acrimonious debate in many cities between vendors, local government, formal business and property owners, community organizations, pedestrians and alternative mobility groups, it has also been the impetus for some innovative mixed-use and inclusive arrangements for sharing urban space. Since in our largest, densest cities, local governments, urban planners, and citizens will have to find new ways to plan, design, and govern this precious urban public space, this symposium particularly seeks to shed light on possible futures and the key narratives that will need to be re-written. Towards this end, this symposium extends the first Contesting the Street conference that was held at UCLA in 2010, by expanding the geographic focus of the inquiry beyond (while still including) the Americas to gain comparative insights. Main Presentation: “From the “Feel Good” City to the Just City” Margaret Crawford is a Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. Symposium Organizers: Annette M. Kim, Associate Professor at the Price School of Public Policy and Director of SLAB, Price School of Public Policy, USC Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair of the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair Professor and the Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School of Public Policy, USC.

“Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities” - a conference sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. In large cities around the world, the most contested public space is the streets and accompanying sidewalks. As a result of historic migration and immigration to urban centers, the spatial projects vying for this space have multiplied. In particular, the growth of street vending causes us to reconsider some of the fundamental concepts that we have used to understand the city. Vending can be seen as a private taking of public space. It can contribute to civic vitality as well as be an impediment to traffic flow. Vendors are often micro-entrepreneurs who cannot access the private real estate market as spaces for livelihood. The issues about the legitimate use of public space, the right to the city, and local ordinance enforcement/dereliction are often complicated by class conflict as well as the street vendors’ diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and their migrant/immigrant status. As a result, recent street vendors’ challenges and protests have been important catalysts with far-reaching political implications about the future of our urban societies. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners in dynamic dialogue to present empirical cases (both contemporary and historical) and larger global trends. While vending and public space has been the subject of acrimonious debate in many cities between vendors, local government, formal business and property owners, community organizations, pedestrians and alternative mobility groups, it has also been the impetus for some innovative mixed-use and inclusive arrangements for sharing urban space. Since in our largest, densest cities, local governments, urban planners, and citizens will have to find new ways to plan, design, and govern this precious urban public space, this symposium particularly seeks to shed light on possible futures and the key narratives that will need to be re-written. Towards this end, this symposium extends the first Contesting the Street conference that was held at UCLA in 2010, by expanding the geographic focus of the inquiry beyond (while still including) the Americas to gain comparative insights. Panelists: Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, and inaugural Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Margaret Crawford is a Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Colombia University. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. Symposium Organizers: Annette M. Kim, Associate Professor at the Price School of Public Policy and Director of SLAB, Price School of Public Policy, USC Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair of the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair Professor and the Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School of Public Policy, USC.

Keynote presentation by Ananya Roy - Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, and inaugural Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin as part of the conference: Contesting the Streets II: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. In large cities around the world, the most contested public space is the streets and accompanying sidewalks. As a result of historic migration and immigration to urban centers, the spatial projects vying for this space have multiplied. In particular, the growth of street vending causes us to reconsider some of the fundamental concepts that we have used to understand the city. Vending can be seen as a private taking of public space. It can contribute to civic vitality as well as be an impediment to traffic flow. Vendors are often micro-entrepreneurs who cannot access the private real estate market as spaces for livelihood. The issues about the legitimate use of public space, the right to the city, and local ordinance enforcement/dereliction are often complicated by class conflict as well as the street vendors’ diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and their migrant/immigrant status. As a result, recent street vendors’ challenges and protests have been important catalysts with far-reaching political implications about the future of our urban societies. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners in dynamic dialogue to present empirical cases (both contemporary and historical) and larger global trends. While vending and public space has been the subject of acrimonious debate in many cities between vendors, local government, formal business and property owners, community organizations, pedestrians and alternative mobility groups, it has also been the impetus for some innovative mixed-use and inclusive arrangements for sharing urban space. Since in our largest, densest cities, local governments, urban planners, and citizens will have to find new ways to plan, design, and govern this precious urban public space, this symposium particularly seeks to shed light on possible futures and the key narratives that will need to be re-written. Towards this end, this symposium extends the first Contesting the Street conference that was held at UCLA in 2010, by expanding the geographic focus of the inquiry beyond (while still including) the Americas to gain comparative insights. Main Presentation: “The City as People’s Territory: Revisiting Urban Informality” Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, and inaugural Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. This conference is sponsored by SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC Price; The César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance. Symposium Organizers: Annette M. Kim, Associate Professor at the Price School of Public Policy and Director of SLAB, Price School of Public Policy, USC Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair of the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA Raphael Bostic, Bedrosian Chair Professor and the Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School of Public Policy, USC.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADUATES! The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy's commencement ceremony with keynote by Curtis Conway. In addition to celebrating our graduates’ many accomplishments, we are excited to welcome commencement speaker Curtis Conway. Conway received his undergraduate degree from Price in 2001. He went on to a successful 12-year NFL career, and is currently an in-studio football analyst for multiple broadcast stations. Beyond these professional accomplishments, Conway embodies the mission of the Price School, and he exemplifies the type of graduate who represents our mission and values in the larger world. Conway was born here in Los Angeles, just a few blocks from the USC campus. He worked hard as a high school student to earn a scholarship to USC, and in so doing, became the first in his family to pursue higher education. He is deeply committed to serving the community, working with a number of nonprofit organizations including Feeding America and Fitness for Kids. Additionally, he annually hosts athletic camps at the USC Coliseum promoting the value of education to underserved inner-city youth, and works with young men of color and their parents to help students prepare for and succeed at college. Curtis Conway is an alumnus who not only achieved great success in professional sports and broadcasting, but who used the education and training he received at Price to invest in and better the community where he grew up. We are very proud to have him as our commencement speaker this year, and we look forward to hearing his inspiring address.

In this special edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss the Italian classic novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. The ancient emperor, Kublai Khan is so busy running the empire that he needs merchants to describe his vast empire, the great explorer Marco Polo is the only one whose imaginative descriptions of the cities of the empire help Khan learn about his dominion. Framed between the conversation between the two are Polo’s fantastical descriptions of the cities he visits – fables to discuss ideas from linguistics to urban theory. This short novel has become a favorite to use in courses here at the Price School of Public Policy … let’s find out why. For links to some of the things we discuss view our show page at: https://bedrosian.usc.edu/programs/bedrosian-book-club-podcast/invisible-cities/ Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center http://bedrosian.usc.edu/  Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy http://priceschool.usc.ed

Presented by METRANS Transportation Center as part of the Transportation Research Seminar Series. Over the past 20 years, California has made substantial investments in intra-metropolitan passenger rail infrastructure, expanding existing systems and building new ones. According to advocates of New Urbanism, such investment should encourage the growth of mixed-use transit-oriented development, defined as a high-density mix of residential and commercial uses within walking distance of rail stations. Little research to date has examined whether rail investment stimulates retail activity, which is a key component of mixed-use development. In this seminar, we examine whether the opening of new rail stations across California’s four largest metropolitan areas has affected retail employment within one-quarter mile of the stations, compared to similar neighborhoods around older stations or with no rail stations. Jenny Schuetz is an Assistant Professor in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Her primary research interests are urban and real estate economics, local public finance, and housing policy. Her research has been published in a variety of journals, including Regional Science and Urban Economics, the Journal of Housing Economics, Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Urban Studies. Current research projects include urban retail location patterns and the relationship between art galleries and neighborhood change. Dr. Schuetz teaches classes in real estate finance and policy analysis. Dr. Schuetz earned a B.A. with Highest Distinction in Economics and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia, a Master's in City Planning from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Previously Dr. Schuetz worked for Abt Associates Inc., the Fannie Mae Foundation and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

Kevin Starr, Ph.D. is the California State Librarian Emeritus and University Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His six-volume book series, Americans and the California Dream, captures the enigmatic blend of dreams and hardscrabble reality that loosely define California. 

In this lecture, Professor Starr will place George Washington in the context of the relationship of the American colonies to the western frontier during the Colonial period. He will discuss such figures as Bishop George Berkeley, William Byrd, William Bartram, Thomas Jefferson, and others — and then focus in on Washington's own complex relationship to the frontier as surveyor, military officer, investor, president, and member of the Masonic Order. Through a generous gift by Maribeth Borthwick ’73, Vice Regent for the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, a new partnership between USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon was created. Convening students, scholars, historians, and the general public from across the country, the partnership provides an ongoing exploration of George Washington’s lifelong accomplishments. Through this partnership, the public can gain a better understanding of George Washington as a man, as well as his remarkable leadership, professional achievements and lasting legacy.

 The mission of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy is to improve the quality of life for people and their communities, here and abroad. We achieve this mission through education and research that promote innovative solutions to the most critical issues facing society. In fulfilling this mission, the Price School provides a dynamic learning environment where interdisciplinary education abounds. At Price, students choose a program of study from the interconnected fields of public administration, public policy, urban planning, health policy and management, and real estate development. 

 Since purchasing George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate from the Washington family and assuming stewardship in 1858, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association has embraced a heroic mission to preserve, protect, and maintain the estate for the American people, relying exclusively on private donations, admission fees, and restaurant and retail proceeds. Through robust education and outreach programs, the Association expands awareness about the exceptional life and character of George Washington, sustaining his legacy through research, interpretation, and public education. In experiences on the estate and through its digital outreach platforms, Mount Vernon strives to preserve George Washington’s place in history as “First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen.” 

 With its latest initiative, The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon is affirming its status as the preeminent center of learning about George Washington, his life, character of leadership, and legacy. In addition to safeguarding original books and manuscripts, the Library serves as a center for leadership, where scholars, influencers, and other luminaries come together to talk about the past as well as the future, inspired by Washington’s extraordinary life, achievements, and character.

ADMS (Archived Data Management System) archives real-time feeds from several different systems (freeways, arterials, and transit) from regional agencies, and provides data on traffic flows, incidents, and transit service. ADMS is a rich resource, not only for systems operations, management and planning, but also for analyzing impacts of system changes, from new infrastructure investments to fuel price variations. Access to this comprehensive historical archive of real-time multimodal system performance data has provided a unique opportunity to demonstrate how “big data” can be used for transportation planning and policy analysis. With funding by Metro, we use ADMS to evaluate the impacts of a major light rail investment in Los Angeles (the Expo Line) on corridor-level multimodal transportation system performance, comparing corridor-level system performance before and after opening of the rail line. Our findings reveal a significant positive impact on transit patronage, largely due to the existence of latent demand for high quality transit travel. Dr. Genevieve Giuliano is the Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government and Senior Associate Dean of Research and Technology in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, at the University of Southern California, and the Director of the METRANS Transportation Center. Dr. Giuliano's current research includes analysis of growth and development of employment centers, examination of how ports and supply chains respond to environmental regulation, and development of planning and management applications using real-time transportation system data. She is the recipient of the TRB Distinguished Service Award (2006), the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship Award (2007), and the Transportation Research Forum Outstanding Researcher award (2012). She was recently appointed to the National Freight Advisory Committee. Sandip Chakrabarti is a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and research assistant at the METRANS Transportation Research Center. His research focuses on the relationships between land use and transportation, the influence of value of time and reliability on travel behavior, and transportation policy analysis. Sandip completed his Master of City Planning degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and worked as an urban planning consultant in New Delhi, India, before joining the Price School. Sandip has an undergraduate degree in Architecture, and is keenly interested in urban design and development

Engaging the Asian City: Alternative Approaches to Urban Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice A Half-Day Symposium at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Engaging the Asian City: By Engaging the Asian Village by Aseem Inam - Associate Professor of Urbanism & Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Practice, Parsons The New School for Design Bringing together contributors of the recent 24-chapter volume The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge 2012), and building upon Price School graduate student work from the India and Japan studios, this half-day symposium will spark a dialogue on how Asian cities are being shaped by different social, political and cultural phenomena compared to European and American ones, and why we should choose to read and ultimately engage with them differently. Many Asian cities are going through the same problems as Western ones: the debacles of single use zoning, FAR regulations, bureaucratic planning, urban disinvestment, sprawl, autopian dominance, etc. However, different governance structures, ambiguous administration and reinforcement, rapid population explosions, massive rural to urban migrations, extreme economic polarizations, large informal economies, the dominance of religion, the ambitions of a rising middle-class, the continuing perceived superiority of the West, all raise perplexing questions on how to intervene with what are essentially very different expectations of urban life in the first place. How Asian cities are manifesting the choices and decisions about their past and present, who in fact is making these choices, in turn for whom, and how they are being implemented, are crucial pointers to how we need to initiate alternative approaches to their deep histories, complex presents and ambitious futures. This discussion will seek to push the definitions of urban theory, pedagogy and practice beyond conventional and ordained readings - not as confident proposals for what a city ought to be, but careful engagements with existing and inherent mechanisms towards strategic change.

Engaging the Asian City: Alternative Approaches to Urban Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice A Half-Day Symposium at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Engaging the Asian City: Student Presentations from the India & Japan Studio at USC Price featuring Jacki Chou, David Shea, Winnie Fong, and Steve Coulter Bringing together contributors of the recent 24-chapter volume The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge 2012), and building upon Price School graduate student work from the India and Japan studios, this half-day symposium will spark a dialogue on how Asian cities are being shaped by different social, political and cultural phenomena compared to European and American ones, and why we should choose to read and ultimately engage with them differently. Many Asian cities are going through the same problems as Western ones: the debacles of single use zoning, FAR regulations, bureaucratic planning, urban disinvestment, sprawl, autopian dominance, etc. However, different governance structures, ambiguous administration and reinforcement, rapid population explosions, massive rural to urban migrations, extreme economic polarizations, large informal economies, the dominance of religion, the ambitions of a rising middle-class, the continuing perceived superiority of the West, all raise perplexing questions on how to intervene with what are essentially very different expectations of urban life in the first place. How Asian cities are manifesting the choices and decisions about their past and present, who in fact is making these choices, in turn for whom, and how they are being implemented, are crucial pointers to how we need to initiate alternative approaches to their deep histories, complex presents and ambitious futures. This discussion will seek to push the definitions of urban theory, pedagogy and practice beyond conventional and ordained readings - not as confident proposals for what a city ought to be, but careful engagements with existing and inherent mechanisms towards strategic change.

Engaging the Asian City: Alternative Approaches to Urban Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice A Half-Day Symposium at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Engaging the Asian City: Intertwined Engagements - Re-thinking Asian Cities through multiple perspectives and Discussion Panel moderated by Vinayak Bharne (Symposium Chair) - Joint Adjunct Faculty of Urbanism, USC Price School of Public Policy & USC School of Architecture Bringing together contributors of the recent 24-chapter volume The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge 2012), and building upon Price School graduate student work from the India and Japan studios, this half-day symposium will spark a dialogue on how Asian cities are being shaped by different social, political and cultural phenomena compared to European and American ones, and why we should choose to read and ultimately engage with them differently. Many Asian cities are going through the same problems as Western ones: the debacles of single use zoning, FAR regulations, bureaucratic planning, urban disinvestment, sprawl, autopian dominance, etc. However, different governance structures, ambiguous administration and reinforcement, rapid population explosions, massive rural to urban migrations, extreme economic polarizations, large informal economies, the dominance of religion, the ambitions of a rising middle-class, the continuing perceived superiority of the West, all raise perplexing questions on how to intervene with what are essentially very different expectations of urban life in the first place. How Asian cities are manifesting the choices and decisions about their past and present, who in fact is making these choices, in turn for whom, and how they are being implemented, are crucial pointers to how we need to initiate alternative approaches to their deep histories, complex presents and ambitious futures. This discussion will seek to push the definitions of urban theory, pedagogy and practice beyond conventional and ordained readings - not as confident proposals for what a city ought to be, but careful engagements with existing and inherent mechanisms towards strategic change.

Engaging the Asian City: Alternative Approaches to Urban Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice A Half-Day Symposium at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Engaging the Asian City: Robert Cowherd - Associate Professor of Architecture, Wentworth Institute of Technolo Bringing together contributors of the recent 24-chapter volume The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge 2012), and building upon Price School graduate student work from the India and Japan studios, this half-day symposium will spark a dialogue on how Asian cities are being shaped by different social, political and cultural phenomena compared to European and American ones, and why we should choose to read and ultimately engage with them differently. Many Asian cities are going through the same problems as Western ones: the debacles of single use zoning, FAR regulations, bureaucratic planning, urban disinvestment, sprawl, autopian dominance, etc. However, different governance structures, ambiguous administration and reinforcement, rapid population explosions, massive rural to urban migrations, extreme economic polarizations, large informal economies, the dominance of religion, the ambitions of a rising middle-class, the continuing perceived superiority of the West, all raise perplexing questions on how to intervene with what are essentially very different expectations of urban life in the first place. How Asian cities are manifesting the choices and decisions about their past and present, who in fact is making these choices, in turn for whom, and how they are being implemented, are crucial pointers to how we need to initiate alternative approaches to their deep histories, complex presents and ambitious futures. This discussion will seek to push the definitions of urban theory, pedagogy and practice beyond conventional and ordained readings - not as confident proposals for what a city ought to be, but careful engagements with existing and inherent mechanisms towards strategic change.

Engaging the Asian City: Alternative Approaches to Urban Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice A Half-Day Symposium at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Engaging Which Asian City by Jeff Hou - Associate Professor & Chair of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle Bringing together contributors of the recent 24-chapter volume The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge 2012), and building upon Price School graduate student work from the India and Japan studios, this half-day symposium will spark a dialogue on how Asian cities are being shaped by different social, political and cultural phenomena compared to European and American ones, and why we should choose to read and ultimately engage with them differently. Many Asian cities are going through the same problems as Western ones: the debacles of single use zoning, FAR regulations, bureaucratic planning, urban disinvestment, sprawl, autopian dominance, etc. However, different governance structures, ambiguous administration and reinforcement, rapid population explosions, massive rural to urban migrations, extreme economic polarizations, large informal economies, the dominance of religion, the ambitions of a rising middle-class, the continuing perceived superiority of the West, all raise perplexing questions on how to intervene with what are essentially very different expectations of urban life in the first place. How Asian cities are manifesting the choices and decisions about their past and present, who in fact is making these choices, in turn for whom, and how they are being implemented, are crucial pointers to how we need to initiate alternative approaches to their deep histories, complex presents and ambitious futures. This discussion will seek to push the definitions of urban theory, pedagogy and practice beyond conventional and ordained readings - not as confident proposals for what a city ought to be, but careful engagements with existing and inherent mechanisms towards strategic change.

Engaging the Asian City: Alternative Approaches to Urban Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice A Half-Day Symposium at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Opening Remarks by Vinayak Bharne (Symposium Chair) - Joint Adjunct Faculty of Urbanism, USC Price School of Public Policy & USC School of Architecture Bringing together contributors of the recent 24-chapter volume The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge 2012), and building upon Price School graduate student work from the India and Japan studios, this half-day symposium will spark a dialogue on how Asian cities are being shaped by different social, political and cultural phenomena compared to European and American ones, and why we should choose to read and ultimately engage with them differently. Many Asian cities are going through the same problems as Western ones: the debacles of single use zoning, FAR regulations, bureaucratic planning, urban disinvestment, sprawl, autopian dominance, etc. However, different governance structures, ambiguous administration and reinforcement, rapid population explosions, massive rural to urban migrations, extreme economic polarizations, large informal economies, the dominance of religion, the ambitions of a rising middle-class, the continuing perceived superiority of the West, all raise perplexing questions on how to intervene with what are essentially very different expectations of urban life in the first place. How Asian cities are manifesting the choices and decisions about their past and present, who in fact is making these choices, in turn for whom, and how they are being implemented, are crucial pointers to how we need to initiate alternative approaches to their deep histories, complex presents and ambitious futures. This discussion will seek to push the definitions of urban theory, pedagogy and practice beyond conventional and ordained readings - not as confident proposals for what a city ought to be, but careful engagements with existing and inherent mechanisms towards strategic change.

The Future of California: How Can California Prepare for a Future That's Already Here? Presented through the School's widely respected Dean's Speaker Series, this discussion will juxtapose traditional anti-immigration sentiments against a new socially cohesive narrative that allows currently fragmented populations to develop a shared future for California. Noted historian and Professor Kevin Starr will discuss the evolution of California's social and political history, while Price School faculty member Dowell Myers will discuss the demographic trends of California and offer remedies for reconciling a proud past with an uncertain future.

ABSTRACT: In a relatively short time, many of China's cities have become major industrial, shipping, and financial hubs. To support this unprecedented growth and economic development, China has invested enormous sums to provide transportation, power, communications, sanitation and other basic infrastructure. Although much of this investment has been in newer urban districts, old districts within existing cities still add value to the economy and are often repositories of China's considerable cultural heritage. Maintaining compatibility between the old and the new is always challenging but the renewal of older infrastructure systems often lags behind due to a shortage of capital and difficulties in raising sufficient revenue to support replacement and upgrading of basic systems. This seminar will examine the range of funding and financing options that are in use throughout the world to see what mix of public and private approaches might be most suitable for Chinese cities to adopt as part of a funding and financing strategy that will support enduring and sustainable renewal and redevelopment of older urban districts. SPEAKER BIO: Richard G. Little is a Senior Fellow in the Price School, where he teaches and conducts research regarding critical infrastructure issues. He was formerly Director of the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy. Prior to joining USC, he was Director of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council where he directed a program of studies in building and infrastructure research. Mr. Little has over forty years’ experience in planning, management, and policy development relating to civil infrastructure, including fifteen years with local government.